Reminiscences of William Thompson Lusk : oral history, 1972.

Biographical Note

Corporation executive.

Scope and Contents

Tiffany and Lusk family background; education, Groton, and Yale; Tiffany and Co., 1937-1955: expansion of manufacturing and retail trade, personnel, effects of the Depression, closing of Paris office, 1955 stock sale and reorganization under Walter Hoving, upgrading of various departments, franchises for sale of Tiffany silver, publicity innovations, synthetic gems, buying trips to Europe after World war II, memorable sales; THE TIFFANY TOUCH. Impressions of many figures in Tiffany's history including Louis Moore, Walter Hoving.

Subjects

• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Jewelry.
• Jewelry making.
• Jewelry stores.
• Lusk, William Thompson, 1901-1978.
• Mojo, Estherbelle, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.
• Tiffany and Company.